On Mon, 23 May 2005 11:54 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > "Julien Vallet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The result is "ERROR: UNION types text and bigint cannot be matched" > > This is the identical issue reported here: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-02/msg00008.php > See also this thread: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-02/msg00693.php > > The short answer is that what you wrote is illegal per the SQL spec > (which doesn't allow NULL to be used in ways where a type can't be > ascribed immediately). While we'd like to accept it, we have > not figured out a rule that doesn't break the spec in other ways. > For now I'd recommend casting the NULLs explicitly.
Can we spit out an error that is slightly more relevant? Maybe print a warning/error that NULL was used without a type? Regards Russell Smith > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
